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Rickettsia
Rickettsia meaning
Any of a group of gram-negative bacteria, of the genus Rickettsia, carried as parasites by ticks, fleas and lice, that cause typhus and other diseases. | Any bacterium of the order Rickettsiales.
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In the periods between outbreaks, when human to human transmission occurs less often, the flying squirrel serves as a zoonotic reservoir for the Rickettsia prowazekii bacterium.
Medical uses It is first-line therapy for rocky mountain spotted fever (Rickettsia), Lyme disease (B.